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02193aam a2200325Ki 4500 001 9A71CF88E9E711E69A6025A3DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170203020341 008 160301s2016 nyua b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 9781137580498 020 $a 1137580496 035 $a (OCoLC)942380871 040 $a YDXCP $b eng $e rda $c YDXCP $d BTCTA $d OCLCQ $d AMH $d OCLCF $d YDX $d IWA $d SILO 050 4 $a QC929.24 B35x 2016 100 1 $a Bailey, Janette-Susan, $e author. 245 10 $a Dust bowl : $b Depression America to World War Two Australia / $c Janette-Susan Bailey. 264 1 $a New York : $b Palgrave Macmillan, imprint published by Springer Nature, $c [2016] 300 $a xxii, 353 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 22 cm 490 1 $a Palgrave studies in world environmental history 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a This book takes the Dust Bowl story beyond Depression America to describe the 'dust bowl' concept as a transnational phenomenon, where during World War Two, US and Australian national mythologies converged. Dust Bowl begins with Depression America, the New Deal and the US Dust Bowl where massive dust storms darkened the skies of the Great Plains and triggered a major national and international media event and generated imagery describing a failed yeoman dream, Dust Bowl refugees, and the coming of a new American Desert. Dust Bowl traces the evolution of this imagery to Australia, World War Two and New Deal-inspired stories of conservation-mindedness, soil erosion and enemies, sheep-farmers and traitors, creeping deserts and human extinction, super-human housewives and natural disaster and finally, grand visions of a nation-building post-war scheme for Australia's iconic Snowy River-that vision became the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Scheme. 650 0 $a Droughts $z United States. 650 0 $a Droughts $z Australia. 650 0 $a Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939. 830 0 $a Palgrave studies in world environmental history. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191217021623.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20170203031415.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9A71CF88E9E711E69A6025A3DAD10320 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search